Moody Jones Gallery is proud to present the annual Phenomenal Women exhibition, an intimate and powerful celebration of artists whose work embodies the essence of representation, womanhood, and maternal themes.
This year, we honor the brilliance of Taleya Johnson, Morgan Overton, and Martryce Roach – three exceptional voices whose creative practices explore the sacred dimensions of Black womanhood.
The exhibition will run from May 3–24, 2025 at Moody Jones Gallery, located at 107B S Easton Rd, Glenside, PA 19038. Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 3, from 4–8PM, with a featured Artist Talk at 7PM.
About the Artists
“Taléya “JET” Johnson is an award-winning artist from the Washington DC Metropolitan area, renowned for her captivating blue paintings. Her work explores the connection between physicality and spirituality through the lens of realism and abstraction. Since 2012, she has honed her craft across multiple mediums, earning a BFA in Art Education from Virginia Commonwealth University and further training at prestigious institutions like Pratt Institute and Universidad Veritas. JET’s work has received numerous accolades, including the Black History in the Making Award and Best in Show at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, while being featured in major showcases like the Harlem Fine Arts Show and the Spectacular Black Girl Art Show. Currently, she creates a transformative series centered around women of color, in addition to hosting art classes and designing large-scale murals for various spaces.
Her use of color, form, and texture weaves ancestral memory with cosmic imagination, creating visual spaces and layered allegories that speak to the deeply personal, healing, identity, and sacred femininity.
Morgan Overton is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, whose work centers identity, social issues, and celebration of culture – offering thought-provoking perspectives and the depth of the human spirit.
She is currently the inaugural Artist-In-Residence at the University of Pittsburgh Frederick Honors College, where her residency theme, Democracy in Focus, elevates art as a tool to activate civic engagement and social consciousness.
Her creative process is an intentional usage of using portraiture, textures, and abstract forms across all mediums. Each piece she creates serves as a testament to resilience and a call to action, encouraging viewers to engage critically with the world around them. Morgan extracts from historic moments, to reimagining how to perceive our world, with an eye toward justice, empathy, and transformation.
With bold brushstrokes and expressive realism, Morgan captures stories often overlooked—particularly those of women whose lives reflect care, leadership, and endurance. Her work is a tribute to lineage, empowerment, and legacy—amplifying the personal as political.
Martryce Roach, based in Philadelphia, is a painter, creative technologist, and fourth-generation storyteller whose practice bridges personal memory with collective history. Her work is deeply informed by archival imagery, oral traditions, and the quiet power of Black matriarchs.
Up from the South—her featured piece in this year’s exhibition— feels both intimate and ancestral, paying tribute to the women who came before and the environments that shaped them.
Through a multidisciplinary lens, Martryce captures the beauty, resilience, and layered narratives of Black life across generations, continuing a legacy of truth-telling through image.
This year’s Phenomenal Women exhibition centers around the importance of representation, not as a trend, but as a necessity. Through their distinct practices, these three women offer a dynamic visual dialogue that honors Black women in all their complexity—mothers, daughters, ancestors, and visionaries.
Together, their work creates a spectrum of Black womanhood that is at once intimate and expansive.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition Dates: May 3–24, 2025
Location: Moody Jones Gallery, 107B S Easton Rd, Glenside, PA 19038
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 3, 4–8PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 3, 7PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Saturday | 12PM–6PM
Admission is free and open to the public.
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